Here are details from church files unsealed Tuesday about seven priests
accused of sexual abuse or inappropriate touching. All the records deal
with complaints made to church officials during the tenure of Bishop Joseph
Delaney, who died last year. There is no sign that police were notified
about any of the priests. To read more of the court documents, go to DallasNews.com.

The Rev. Philip
Magaldi

Initial allegation: He offered dinner and drinks to an
18-year-old who came to him for confession in 1995, hugged him, groped his
buttocks, kissed him and paid him to administer enemas.

Where he worked then: St. John the Apostle, North Richland
Hills

When reported: 1997

Priest's response then: Father Magaldi denied abusing the
young man but admitted paying for the enemas, saying he needed help with
a medical condition.

Diocesan response: Church investigators found the priest
"guilty of sexual exploitation" and recommended that he be ordered
to do volunteer work. Bishop Delaney left him at St. John and barred him
from supervising altar boys – but, as previously reported, let him continue
as chaplain of the diocesan Boy Scouts program.

What happened next: In 1998, a Massachusetts man said that
Father Magaldi, while a priest in Rhode Island in the 1970s, had abused
him for years, sometimes with enemas. The priest denied ever meeting the
accuser. Bishop Delaney told the priest he had to remove him from ministry
while investigating. But Father Magaldi kept working until 1999, when the
Massachusetts man threatened to sue. After a suspension and the death of
the accuser, he returned to part-time ministry. The priest was accused of
misconduct with boys at his new job and removed again.

The priest today: He was allowed to continue his ministry
at a retirement home until August 2006, when new Bishop Kevin Vann revoked
all his priestly powers. Father Magaldi said Tuesday that he has defied
the bishop's orders and remains in ministry at the home.

The Rev. Joseph
Tu

Initial allegation: He separately put two grade-school-age
sisters on his lap in the late 1970s, behind closed doors, and kissed them.

Diocesan response: Church investigators said "that
the incident(s) can accurately be described as pedophilia. ... Father Tu
[should] be sent to long-term inpatient treatment ... to assist him in breaking
his denial." If he ever returned to duty, "it would have to be
under close supervision, [with] restrictions about seeing women or children
alone."

What happened next: The priest spent several months at
a church-run treatment center in New Mexico. An official in Father Tu's
religious order, the Dominicans, told Bishop Delaney that the priest's diagnosis
was mere "sexual immaturity," not pedophilia. The bishop welcomed
the priest back, but the Dominicans moved him to the Galveston-Houston Archdiocese.
After U.S. bishops agreed in 2002 that even one child-abuse case permanently
disqualified a priest from ministry, Bishop Delaney told Galveston-Houston
Archbishop Joseph Fiorenza that the 1993 allegations were never proven.
"I am not at all sure that there is a problem with Father Tu's continuing
to exercise ministry," Bishop Delaney wrote. Father Tu remained on
duty until February 2006, when he was suspended after other women said he
had abused them when they were girls or young adults. Archdiocesan and Dominican
officials previously insisted that he had been cleared of sexually abusing
children; one of the priest's attorneys said the alleged kissing didn't
amount to abuse.

The priest today: He lives at Holy Rosary Church in Houston
and did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. His face still appears
on the parish Web site, but Holy Rosary's pastor, the Rev. Joseph Konkel,
said that Father Tu is retired and has no public ministry.

The Rev.
Rudolf "Rudy" Renteria

Initial allegation: He took a 14-year-old parishioner to
bed in 1981 and fondled him.

Where he worked then: St. Matthew Church, Arlington

When reported: Immediately

Priest's response then: Father Renteria told the boy's
father he might "have done something in his sleep that he didn't remember,"
according to a memo that Bishop Delaney wrote.

Diocesan response: The bishop transferred Father Renteria
to Vernon, a small town near the Oklahoma border. His memo said he acted
after consulting with three priests – including the Rev. Robert Wilson and
the Rev. Joseph Schumacher, who served as his top aides for many years.

What happened next: By 1985, Father Renteria had been moved
to St. Philip Church in Lewisville. "Disruptive behavior and alcohol
abuse" there led the bishop to send him to a clergy treatment center
in Canada, diocese officials previously said. The priest returned to Texas
and worked as a hospital chaplain. In 2000, a former Lewisville parishioner
told church officials that Father Renteria once got him drunk, fondled him
and tried to have anal sex. Diocesan investigators confronted Father Renteria,
who "did not deny it" and said he sometimes had alcohol-related
blackouts in Lewisville. The investigators, noting that the accuser was
18 at the time of the incident, concluded that "RR poses no threat
to anyone as long as he does not drink" and should keep his chaplain's
job at St. Paul Medical Center in Dallas. Dallas Bishops Charles Grahmann
and Joseph Galante – consulted because of the hospital's location – agreed.
Father Renteria stayed on duty until 2002, when U.S. bishops adopted their
"zero tolerance" discipline rules and the initial victim's father
reminded Bishop Delaney of the 1981 incident. The bishop then permanently
removed Father Renteria from ministry and wrote in a private memo that the
priest "was very contrite about his past offenses, which he admitted
freely." A news release announcing the removal didn't mention this
admission, though it did quote the bishop as saying he regretted "that
I did not act more firmly and decisively" in 1981.

The priest today: He owns a home in northwest Dallas and
did not respond to a request for comment. Diocese officials did not answer
questions Tuesday about whether they monitor him or what he does for a living.The Rev. John Howlett

Initial allegation: He repeatedly fondled two grade-school-age
sisters in the early to mid-1980s.

Where he worked then: St. Mary Church, Graham, Texas

When reported: Around 1984

Priest's response then: Church records don't say. The girls'
mother recalled that she confronted him in the early to mid-1980s and that
"he did not deny it."

Diocesan response: Bishop Delaney transferred Father Howlett
to St. Brendan in Stephenville, Texas, where he spent about a year. The
records released Tuesday don't say why he left or where he went next.

What happened next: In 1993, the mother told church officials
that her daughters were now troubled young adults who needed counseling.
The diocese and the priest's Pallottine order began paying for it. An order
official wrote the diocese about his desire for informal dealings with the
family: "I have a great reluctance to have attorneys publicly involved
pending the expiration of the statute of limitations" – the point beyond
which charges cannot be filed. Father Wilson, who was Bishop Delaney's chancellor,
responded: "I think that you are doing a fine job on this." Since
1999, three more women have told the diocese that Father Howlett abused
them repeatedly when they were girls. Church officials found them credible
and offered to pay for counseling.

The priest today: He lives at a Pallottine residence in
Dublin, Ireland, and could not be reached for comment Tuesday. Order officials
say he is permanently barred from ministry and from unsupervised contact
with the public, to ensure that he has no "adverse effect upon the
general public health or safety."The Rev. James Reilly

Initial allegation: In the late 1970s, he hugged, French-kissed
and tried to disrobe at least three boys in their midteens.

Where he worked then: St. Maria Goretti, Arlington

When reported: 1994

Priest's response then: "He insisted he had never
done anything improper," Bishop Delaney wrote. But two accusers told
church officials that they had confronted Monsignor Reilly around 1980 and
that he had apologized and promised to stop his abuses.

Diocesan response: Bishop Delaney apologized to the initial
accuser and told him that he had previously "heard an allusion"
to similar complaints. But the bishop told the Philadelphia Archdiocese
– where Monsignor Reilly was living at a church – that he didn't think "that
JR was a threat to anyone." Philadelphia let the priest stay until
his death in 1999.

What happened next: Since the late 1990s, several more
men have told the diocese that the priest abused them when they were boys.
Father Wilson, the former chancellor, told one accuser "that we knew
of no other similar incidents with minors." In a subsequent memo, he
said he had forgotten about the 1994 complaints. Eleven of Monsignor Reilly's
accusers sued the Fort Worth Diocese, which agreed last week to pay them
a total of more than $1 million. The diocese also apologized and agreed
to remove the priest's name from all diocesan buildings and plaques.

The Rev. William
Hoover

Initial allegation: In the mid-to-late 1950s, he masturbated
a boy who was about 12 on church camping trips and behind the altar.

Where the priest worked: St. James Church, Dallas

When reported: 1995

Priest's response then: He said there were three victims,
according to a memo from Bishop Delaney. Father Hoover also said that the
late Dallas Bishop Thomas Gorman learned of the abuse in the 1950s and transferred
him to Fort Worth, which was then part of the Dallas Diocese.

Diocesan response: Father Hoover had to resign as pastor
of St. Patrick Cathedral in Fort Worth and was sent to a treatment center.
The bishop told the public that he had admitted abusing only one boy. "When
a complaint of this nature is found to be true, the care of the Catholic
community requires that a full disclosure be made," he said. Bishop
Delaney told the priest's colleagues that he hoped to return him to ministry,
saying that "my trust in his integrity is not diminished by learning
of a mistake he made a long time ago."

What happened next: Several more men soon said Father Hoover
had abused them in the 1950s and 1960s. He died in 1996. Fort Worth church
officials offered to pay for victims' counseling and privately criticized
the Dallas Diocese's practice of paying cash settlements. "The odor
of extorsion [sic] and cover-up is too strong!" Bishop Delaney wrote
in a memo.

The Rev. James Hanlon

Allegation: In the early 1980s, he fondled a teenage boy
who was hospitalized and coming out of anesthesia. On another occasion,
he got the boy drunk, disrobed him and ejaculated on him.

Where he worked then: St. Michael Church, Bedford, and
Holy Family Church, Fort Worth

When reported: 1997

Priest's response then: None; he died in 1990 at age 38,
after battling alcoholism, cirrhosis and HIV.

Diocesan response: Church officials questioned parts of
the accuser's story, but Bishop Delaney referred to him in a memo as "a
sexual abuse victim of Father James Hanlon." The diocese paid for his
counseling and a $12,500 out-of-court settlement.

What happened next: The records reflect no further complaints
about the priest.